Archive for the ‘DNS’ Category
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
This morning, from around 2:10AM to 2:25AM, a large DDoS attack targeting an IP within our Santa Rosa datacenter caused reachability problems to some Sonic.net member and hosting services. The attack has been blocked and all reachability restored.
- Robbie
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Friday, March 15th, 2013
DNS service was interrupted to our ns1.sonic.net name server cluster at 5pm PST for approximately 10 minutes.
All service has been restored and we are investigating the root cause of the problem.
--Augie
Update: Another brief service interruption today ( 21 March ) at 4:31pm PST for approximately 7 minutes as we were ...
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
Today at 3:45pm PST we suffered a DNS outage to one of our two DNS clusters, service was restored to the cluster at 3:51pm.
All services are functioning as expected at this time, and we are investigating the cause of the outage.
--Augie
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Friday, February 22nd, 2013
On Tuesday February 26th we will begin the roll out of several security enhancements to our recursive DNS servers. These features will keep both our customers and our systems more secure and limit abuse of our resources. The changes include:
Enabling DNSSEC validation.
Enabling 2 commercial DNS RPZ services.
Closing our DNS servers ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
The DNSSEC servers provided by Sonic.net are not in any way supported by our Technical Support team, they are available as a "labs" project for advanced customers only.
We have deployed a new set of DNS servers for our customers to use if they want the added protection of DNSSEC while ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Starting today ( 8, Feb ) the name servers we hand out to our customers for DNS resolution ( ns1.sonic.net and ns2.sonic.net ) are going to be updated to exclude authoritative data, and be recursive only name servers.
This means that our name servers will behave more like other name servers ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Our authoritative name servers have had IPv6 addresses for some time now but until earlier today our glue records did not list the server's AAAA addresses. Support for IPv6 on our authoritative name servers is now complete. However, it is worth noting that v6 requests account for <0.1% of our ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Beginning at 11:51 AM we began experiencing problems with queries to www.sonic.net and some of our name based hosted customers. During this time, customers may have experienced intermittent connection errors. We have determined the problem to be a hardware problem with one of our load balancers. Because of the nature ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Yesterday we completed an upgrade of our recursive DNS clusters (what you see as ns1.sonic.net and ns2.sonic.net).
This upgrade gives those DNS servers a substantial performance boost and enables them to handle the ever increasing ammout of requests that they see.
DNS is core to the Internet experience -- without it : ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
We have added the ability for our customers to edit their Reverse DNS in our DNS Editor Member Tool:
https://members.sonic.net/websites/nameservers/host_records
This tool works for anyone with IP Address services with us; be it Colocation, Leased Server, DSL, or anything else with an IP address tied to it; you can now use this ...
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